NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q and AMD Radeon R9 270X videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q

AMD Radeon R9 270X

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 17% higher boost clock speed: 1230 MHz vs 1050 MHz
2108.3x more texture fill rate: 177.1 GTexel/s vs 84 GTexel / s
3.6x more pipelines: 4608 vs 1280
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 28 nm
2.1x lower typical power consumption: 85 Watt vs 180 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB

Launch date	2023 vs 8 October 2013
Boost clock speed	1230 MHz vs 1050 MHz
Texture fill rate	177.1 GTexel/s vs 84 GTexel / s
Pipelines	4608 vs 1280
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	85 Watt vs 180 Watt
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 270X

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q	AMD Radeon R9 270X
PassMark - G3D Mark		4869
PassMark - G2D Mark		613
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		63.87
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1314.72
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		6.354
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		85.21
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		315.412
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		8068
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		8068
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3350
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1772

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q	AMD Radeon R9 270X
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	GCN 1.0
Code name	AD106	Curacao
Launch date	2023	8 October 2013
Place in performance rating	not rated	440
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$199
Price now		$399
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		16.05
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1230 MHz	1050 MHz
Core clock speed	735 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	177.1 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	11.34 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	11.34 TFLOPS
Pipelines	4608	1280
Pixel fill rate	59.04 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	177.1 GTexel/s	84 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	85 Watt	180 Watt
Floating-point performance		2,688 gflops
Stream Processors		1280
Transistor count		2,800 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	2 x 6-pin
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	179.2 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)